**Record of Biographical Information on D. M. Solovyev. August 6 or 7, 1918**

get it at all costs. You know, of course, comrade,
that we attach enormous significance to a consistent proletarian
line on the food question. But there are conditions when military circumstances f o r c e  us to act in military fashion. Bread must be obtained a t  a l l  c o s t s,
even purchased at the highest prices — preserving, of course, m i l i t a r y  s e c r e c y  on this matter — in order to help the hungry. We shall settle accounts h e r e,
at the Council of People's Commissars, taking military conditions into account.
I hope you will fully understand the moment and d e m o n s t r a t e  t o  t h e
arriving railwaymen that we d o  n o t  s p a r e  m o n e y for aid to them.

1 A. P. Smirnov — party member since 1896. After the October Revolution — Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. In 1919–1922 — Deputy People's Commissar of Food Supply. In subsequent years — Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture, People's Commissar of Agriculture, Secretary of the Central Committee of the VKP(b) and in other responsible positions.

Intending to carry through the Council of People's Commissars the appointment of Comrade D. M. Solovyev to the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, I request that you urgently reply whether there are any objections to the appointment of D. M. Solovyev from the Central Committee of the RCP.

Your Lenin

**RECORD OF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
ON D. M. SOLOVYEV¹**

[August 6 or 7, 1918]

To the Secretariat of the Central Committee
Comrade Ya. M. Sverdlov

Markovich
People's Commissar of Agriculture
S. Sereda²

Informed:
Vl. Dm. Bonch-Bruyevich
Yak. M. Sverdlov
Meshcheryakov L.
(from Agriculture)

worked in the trade union
of transport workers
(from III–IV 1917)

through

X 1917

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